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Background

At HP, our ambition is to become the world’s most sustainable and just technology company. Sustainable Impact is fundamental to HP’s reinvention journey – fuelling our innovation and growth, strengthening our business for the long term, and enabling us to develop and deliver the best solutions for our customers.
We are committed to developing and delivering an environmentally sustainable product portfolio, improving the sustainability of our own global operations, and partnering with our suppliers to reduce their environmental impact.
We believe that our actions should address some of the greatest challenges we face as a society, including climate change, human rights and digital equity.
We are proud of the progress we have made on our Sustainable Impact commitments but know there’s still more work to do.

Over the next decade, HP will stand for a new era of progress— where climate change is reversed, human rights are universally protected, and digital equity democratizes opportunity for all.

This is an opportunity to be part of that journey and to make a real positive and sustainable impact.

You can find more information on HP’s Sustainable Impact strategy and commitments at www.hp.com/sustainability, and in our latest Sustainable Impact Report.

Mission

You will lead Sustainable Impact for the UK & Ireland.

Your role will be to ensure our customers in the UK and Ireland can and want to purchase HP products and services because they are safe, legally compliant, responsibly manufactured, and meet or exceed their sustainability expectations.

Together with the Northwest Europe market leadership team, you will be responsible for developing our local plan and its execution, working in partnership with internal teams, as well as externally with our customers, partners and other key stakeholders.

Doing this, you will deliver a distinct competitive advantage to our business, total customer experience, and brand.

The successful candidate will join our Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Markets Sustainable Impact team.

Key Responsibilities

As part of this role:

• You will be HP’s sustainability expert in the UK & Ireland, and as such, provide support to our stakeholders at all levels – internally, including senior management, and externally – including media and our top customers.
• Together with the Northwest Europe Sustainable Impact team, you will help develop our Northwest Europe Sustainable Impact strategy – and you will lead its delivery in the UK&I. You will maintain strong visibility for sustainable impact within the UK&I, develop close relationships with internal teams, you will develop and drive projects to deliver the strategy, and you will provide regular reports to the UK MD and management team.
• One of your key roles will be to support our local sales and marketing teams, to ensure they can fully leverage HP’s sustainable impact strengths to demonstrate how we can best meet or exceed our customers’ expectations.
• You will also work directly with key customers to leverage HP’s products and services to support their goals and forge sustainability partnerships.
• You will also support our channel partners in leveraging HP’s sustainable impact strengths.
• More broadly, you will develop a deep understanding of the relevant environmental and sustainability needs of the UK&I market and convey these insights to HP decision makers as appropriate.
• You will work in partnership with our Northwest Europe Environmental Compliance and Sustainability Specialist to help ensure HP product and services are compliant with environmental regulations and legislation in UK&I, through thorough monitoring, then relaying the relevant requirements to our product development business units.
• Finally, you will support HP’s local sustainable impact initiatives, to make a positive difference in the communities where we live and work.
• Dependent on your experience you will also help lead and mentor our UK&I sustainability interns and UK&I Environmental Compliance and Sustainability Specialist.

To succeed in your mission, you will work closely with the rest of the Sustainable Impact organization (our EMEA team, our regional and global domain experts, etc.), as well as the HP UK&I country teams (business, sales, marketing, legal, government relations, communications, etc.), and external partners including trade associations.

You will be based at our main UK&I office in Reading, combined with the opportunity to work from home, and you will when required travel within the UK&I for customer and compliance meetings, as well as some international travel for team meetings and events.

Requirements & essential skills

• Passion for sustainability and drive to make a positive difference.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree with a significant sustainability or environmental policy focus (e.g., Geography, Environmental Policy, Environmental Management, Environmental and Business, Environmental Law or equivalent.)
• Minimum of 2 to 5 years work experience, preferably in sustainability, business or project management.
• Enthusiasm, ability and willingness to learn and adapt to new challenges.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including being comfortable with presenting to customers, speaking to policy makers, and engaging with senior management.
• Authentic customer service orientation combined with solid business acumen.
• Strong quality orientation. Rigor and attention to details.
• Ability to understand compliance requirements and develop solutions.
• Strong problem-solving skills. Capacity to see “the big picture” in complex, fluid situations, then prioritize and take action with calm and efficiency, working at a fast pace in a flexible manner.
• Strong project management skills – ideally complex, cross-functional and international.
• Strong team-working skills.
• Ability to work with minimal direct day-to-day supervision.
• Capacity to think strategically to develop new ideas and a strong plan; and the leadership, negotiation and influencing skills to rally support from internal and external stakeholders to deliver on our objectives.
• Strong growth mindset and ability to develop new ideas and solutions; as well as scale them to deliver maximum impact.

Desirable

• Experience managing sustainability in a company or sales environment.
• Interest in or experience of working in a sales, compliance or policy making environment.
• Ability to lead and mentor fellow employees.

At HP, we believe in the power of ideas and that ideas thrive best in a culture of teamwork. That is why everyone – at every level in every function, is encouraged to have original ideas, to express them and to share them. We work across borders, and without limits. Global virtual teams share resources and pool their big ideas to solve business issues and meet personal goals. Everyone is valued for the unique skills, experiences, and perspective they bring. This is how ideas and people grow.
We are looking for visionaries who are ready to make an impact on the way the world works.

At HP, the future is yours to create.

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